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	<h1 style="text-align:center;">The Issues</h1>

	<br /><br /><h2 style="text-align:center;">Jobs &amp; Unemployment</h2>
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	Tax imports and offshoring. Increase the taxed amount until corporations realize it's cheaper to move labor and manufacturing back onto American soil. Would you like to know <a href="Unemployment.aspx">more?</a>

	<br /><br /><h2 style="text-align:center;">Economy</h2>
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	Implement the unemployment changes I mentioned <a href="Unemployment.aspx">here</a>. Eliminate special subsidies, tax breaks, regulations, earmarks, and grants, and allow the economy to fix itself. Bringing jobs back to America will provide
	people the opportunity to work, and sheer human greed will drive them from there. If a bank or auto manufacturer is going to go out of business, <i>let them.</i> The Economy is America's business, not the Government's; but the Government broke
	the economy, so it's the Government's job to undo its damage. <br /><br />

	Balance the budget through a systematic department-by-department, program-by-program approach; eliminate everything that we don't need. I <a href="http://hub.kconnolly.net/page.aspx?title=Balanced+2012+Federal+Budget">balanced the 2012 budget</a> and 
	created a <a href="http://www.kconnolly.net/Post.aspx?Title=My+Debt+Elimination+Plan">plan</a> to eliminate the National Debt in seven years. Once that has been done, go back on the Gold Standard. Eliminate the Federal Reserve and move all our reserves to 
	Fort Knox under heavy military guard. Let the market regulate its own interest rates. Adopt a flat sales tax and repeal the 16th amendment and federal Income Tax, which didn't even exist until 1913. Abolish the IRS.<br /><br />

	End the wars. They may have a good moral standing, but we just can't afford them right now. Bring our troops home to protect our borders, coasts, ports, and cities. End military expansion, but don't reduce it. Ensure we have enough military to 
	continue reigning supreme. Let research, education, science, and anything else not in the Constitution be handled by private companies.

	<br /><br /><h2 style="text-align:center;">Abortion</h2>
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	Pro-Choice. Fetuses are not citizens, and therefore have no rights. Women are citizens, and do have rights. No federal funding for Abortions, but federal aid for getting the unwanted babies into new homes through Social Services. 
	Pro-stem cell research, private sector only.

	<br /><br /><h2 style="text-align:center;">Crime &amp; Drugs</h2>
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	Pro-Death Penalty.  Enact "An eye for an eye" policy; punishment should be proportional to the crime. If you stab someone in the face, your punishment should be getting stabbed in the face.  Carry out these punishments live in public, on national TV, 
	and on the Internet with complete and searchable archives. When people watch a punishment being carried out, they'll be less likely to commit a related crime. Find proportional punishments to crimes to avoid prison and jail when possible. Deny prisoners 
	entertainment, college, and other amenities of any kind. Use prisoners for hard labor. When there is no more hard labor to do, use them for easier labor. Would you like to know <a href="http://www.youtube.com/tsilb#p/u/52/Ui_EhbiDIyI">more?</a><br /><br />

	Legalize drugs and prostitution; their taxes will help pay off the debt. Require registration and weekly STD screenings for all prostitutes. End the "war" on drugs. Drug-related crime should be treated the same as any other crime. If you shoot someone 
	because you're on crack, you should get shot back. The fact that you were on crack is completely irrelevant; you knew the punishment when you took the crack.  The economic fixes I mentioned earlier will help reduce crime; if you can afford food, you don't need to steal to get it. 

	<br /><br /><h2 style="text-align:center;">Immigration</h2>
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	Streamline and simplify the immigration process; make it simpler and faster to gain citizenship. Finish the Mexico border fence. Augment border patrol with military, including aerial patrols and microwave/thermal subterranean imaging. Detain anyone caught
	immigrating illegally. At their discretion, bring them back to their home country, or allow them to go through the immigration process. Upon the third time any person is detected crossing the border, execute them. Upon any international smuggling operation,
	execute them. This will be less of an issue with domestic drug production and distribution channels. End all incentives and amnesty for illegal immigrants. Immigration problem is a consequence of the welfare state. 

	<br /><br /><h2 style="text-align:center;">Education</h2>
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	Abolish the Department of Education. Replace it with a set of federal standards to which private companies or states may set up schools through a standardised national curriculum. Linear progression from High School directly to College, same facilities
	and standards. Free education until 25 year equivalent "age", including college if applicable. Eliminate all special tax breaks, earmarks, exemptions, exceptions, and grants. Would you like to know <a href="http://www.kconnolly.net/Post.aspx?Title=On+the+Education+System">more?</a> <br /><br />

	If you want to pray in schools, go ahead. The school itself should not be part of it. "Under God" in the pledge must be optional, but shall be read by the reader exactly as approved by Congress. I would be in favor of following the Pledge of Allegiance
	with a randomly selected passage from the Constitution.

	<br /><br /><h2 style="text-align:center;">Energy &amp; Oil</h2>
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	Allow private companies to drill ANWR, North Dakota, Texas, and other resource-rich areas freely. If people want alternative fuel sources, let the people show that with their demand. Let your dollar be your vote. Eliminate all special tax breaks, 
	earmarks, exemptions, exceptions, and grants.

	<br /><br /><h2 style="text-align:center;">Environment</h2>
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	If people want green companies, people should show the companies that with their demand. Let your dollar be your vote. Eliminate all special tax breaks, earmarks, exemptions, exceptions, and grants.

	<br /><br /><h2 style="text-align:center;">Families &amp; Children</h2>
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	Your family is none of the government's business. Allow gay marriage, but prohibit gay couples from adopting or otherwise having children. If you don't like gay marriage, don't get gay married.

	<br /><br /><h2 style="text-align:center;">Foreign Policy</h2>
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	Keep our allies close, and our enemies closer. Get out of all foreign countries except (1) When an ally is attacked and requests help with defense, and (2) Critically strategic locations like Okinawa, Korea, and Iceland.
	Eliminate all foreign aid programs; why are we feeding starving children in China when we have starving children here? Eliminate proactive warmongering. However, when attacked by any foreign power, <i>wipe them off the face of the Earth.</i> 
	If they attack our civilians, their civilians become valid targets. Either get out of Israel, or invade Palestine and be done with it.

	<br /><br /><h2 style="text-align:center;">Free Trade</h2>
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	Free Trade is one of the founding principles of America, and one of the things that has always made America great. Legalize gambling, drugs and prostitution; end the Cuban embargo. Allow free trade of medicine from Canada. Do not export firearms of any kind
	for any reason, including to our allies, including for wartime aid. Every time we send guns somewhere, they end up getting used against us. <br /><br />

	Let the states handle their own Mass Transit solutions, private or otherwise. Do not subsidize. No federal funding for private projects, like Obama's 2012 proposed $4b directly to Amtrak.

	<br /><br /><h2 style="text-align:center;">Government Reform</h2>
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	The way I read the Constitution, it's pretty obvious our founding fathers wanted a <i>small government</i>. Any law passed by the Congress should provide constitutional justification to show that such law directly advances some tenent of the Constitution.
	Review every single federal law and standing executive order currently in force, review it for constitutional justification, and repeal the ones that do not meet this criterion. Repeal Obamacare and NCLB. Demand each department and independent agency create
	its own from-scratch budget proposal, and to provide justification for any expansions and for the very existence thereof. <br /><br />

	Government investment in <i>any</i> business is malinvestment. Liquidate all government holdings of private businesses. The "living Constitution" is the death of America. Read the Constitution without interpretation of any kind; its authors put a great
	deal of thought into its wording. Read it as it was written. If you read the Declaration of Independence, the enumerated reasons for secession from England can largely be found true today; and in some cases has gotten worse. Fix that. <br /><br />
	
	Systematically go through every federal government program and eliminate the ones that do not directly advance some tenent of the Constitution. Abolish the departments of Energy, Homeland Security, and Education; move some of their programs to other
	departments as proposed in my <a href="http://hub.kconnolly.net/page.aspx?title=Balanced+2012+Federal+Budget">2012 Balanced Federal Budget</a>, and merely eliminate the others. Allow people to opt out of Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and
	Unemployment Insurance.<br /><br />

	We need Congressional term limits, but Congress would have to enact them. Therefore I propose we introduce a bill that enforces term limits, but exempts those currently holding office. I hate exemptions, but it's the only way it would ever pass. 
	Trials, court usage, and juries should all be free to all Citizens. 100% transparency of all nonclassified government spending and activities. Available online. When planning a budget, one should ask not "What can we cut?", but rather "What do we need to keep?". Small government. Free enterprise. This is what America 
	was meant to be.

	<br /><br /><h2 style="text-align:center;">Gun Control</h2>
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	Guns prevent crime; but more importantly, guns prevent governments from doing things like the Holocaust. I think the Second Amendment says it best:
	<div style="background-color: #eeeeee; padding-left: 20px;"><br />A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. <br /><br /></div>

	Guns are more than just a personal freedom; guns are the law. People should be allowed to have guns, carry guns, and conceal guns. If people use guns in crime, deal with those crimes accordingly.

	Would you like to know <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/BillWhittleChannel#p/u/5/kRAw3VWVyD8">more?</a>

	<br /><br /><h2 style="text-align:center;">Health Care</h2>
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	Repeal Obamacare. Eliminate most of the DHHS. Let the states take care of their own healthcare. This is a private industry, and so it should remain. Import medicine from Canada; even with my 20% tax, it would still be much cheaper than it is today.
	Eliminate all special tax breaks, earmarks, exemptions, exceptions, and grants.	

	<br /><br /><h2 style="text-align:center;">Homeland Security</h2>
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	End the wars. They may have a good moral standing, but we just can't afford them right now. Bring our troops home to protect our borders, coasts, ports, and cities. End military expansion, but don't reduce it. Ensure we have enough military to 
	continue reigning supreme.  Move defense programs to DoD and other programs to DoJ; abolish DHS. Reassess “mutual security” treaties; our allies never aid us. 



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